...Yu-yueh Tsai Taiwan as an island country is an immigrant society where interethnic marriages have been common. In the past centuries, it has not been unusual that people in Taiwan change their ethnic identities for various reasons. Its “four great ethnic groups” ( sida zuqun )—the Hoklo, Hakka...

... high-school students. In 2007, I also coauthored with Professors Li-Ling Tsai and Chia-Ling Wu a textbook chapter, “Gender and Science,” in which we incorporated parts from A Feeling and Reflections ( Tsai, Wang, and Wu 2012 [2007] ). More recently, in August 2016, my colleagues and I organized a...

..., Li-Tang Tsai has completed her Ph.D training at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. — EASTS Editorial Office My career goal is to become a medical researcher. As a medical student, I expected that the training required to become a physician would also help me to become a good scientist. Like...

... specificities. Taiwan differs significantly in that it is not recognized by the World Trade Organization, the World Health Organization, and other international bodies as an independent country, which shapes both its national imagination and its policy development ( Chen 2009 ; Tsai 2003 ). Scientific and...

... ethics. Nevertheless, Han and Li’s research shows the unmistakable impact of pressure on research misconduct. Although articles in this issue have not analyzed any Taiwanese case, Daniel Fu-Chang Tsai’s commentary gives us more than a glimpse of the social and cultural environment surrounding Taiwanese...

... under way when it was listed as one of the target industries for development ( Rei 2010 ; Tsai 2010 ). Biotech development remained a state priority over the next decades and was reiterated in the 2005 government Biomedtech Island project that aimed to develop Taiwan as an Asian hub for biotech and...

...-Yueh Tsai, David Turnbull, Chia-ling Wu, Helen Verran, and Rur-Bin Yang for their discussion and advice. John Law would like to thank the Center for Advanced Study in Oslo, Norway, which funded and hosted the project on “Arctic Domestication in the Era of the Anthropocene” during the 2015–16 academic...

..., private large enterprises, and small and medium businesses, while in South Korea the state-privileged chaebols (family-run conglomerates) dominated the postwar development of capitalism through the policy of incubating “national champions” (see also Wang and Tsai 2009 ; Wang 2007 ; Chu 2010...

... ming lun li xue” 當代生命倫理學 (“Introduction to Bioethics”), was cowritten by two leading figures in medical ethics; it signified the expansion of ethical concerns from medicine to the biological sciences ( Tsai and Lee 2002 ). The final impetus that made medical ethics an indispensable part of Taiwan's...

... Taiwaneseness through the intimate experience of menstruation, especially with young girls' bodies serving as its tokens of exchange. And Jennifer Liu would argue that President Tsai Ing-wen's 2016 “New Southward Policy” has deeper historical roots going back to fin-de-siècle genetic studies, such as the one...

... government leadership for the first time, defeating the ruling party that had controlled Germany's government for over fifty years, in an election held after the outbreak of Japan's nuclear crisis. In Taiwan, Ing-Wen Tsai, the presidential candidate of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), has...

.... However, despite all that, I wouldn’t say that g0v has primarily been an opposition force. We have invited government officials to our events, and many of us have worked with government officials on individual projects. Towards the end of the Ma administration, Minister Jaclyn Tsai challenged the g0v...

... played by the introduction of laparoscopy technology in greatly increasing the biomedicalization of the female body ( Tsai and Wang 2010 ). In addition, the impact of transferred technology on the environment and society was shown in a study of advanced civil engineering technology employed by both civic...

... recent book, The Mirage of a Space between Nature and Nurture, have been a source of lasting inspiration in science. And last but not least, Li-Tang Tsai, then a student in physiotherapy who also transcribed Keller's speech, reflects upon Keller in the initial stages of her choice to pursue a career in...